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SCOTT, William Lawrence, congressman, born in Washington, D. C., 2 July, 1828. He is the grandson of Gustavus Scott (vol. v., p. 436). After receiving a common-school education he became a page in the United States house of representatives. He settled in Erie, Pennsylvania, in 1848, as a clerk in the shipping business, and in 1850 entered business for himself as a coal and shipping merchant. He subsequently became largely interested in iron manufacturing, coal-mining, and the construction and operation of railroads. He was a delegate to the Democratic national conventions in 1868 and in 1880, was elected mayor of Erie in 1866 and 1871, and was a member of the National Democratic committee in 1876-'88. By a union of Democrats and independent Republicans he was chosen to congress an independent Democrat in 1884, where he was a member of the committee of ways and means, and has since served by re-election.
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